A group of Boston community activists is pushing Mayor Marty Walsh for answers asking "what is more important at this time in this city than the issue of stop and frisk and its implications for Ferguson, Missouri."

Sadiki Kambon, director of The Black Community Information Center was joined by a half dozen men at Boston City Hall.

They met with a Walsh administration staff member, but did not meet with the mayor, who wanted to reschedule the session. Kambon said, we can't understand why there is a lack of sensitivity by the mayor knowing the Ferguson verdict looms in the future."

The group cited police data released earlier this year to show African Americans males are stopped by police more often than other individuals.

The data indicates between 2007 and 2010, during 200,000 police investigations that did not involve arrests; 63 percent of those stopped were African Americans.

However, only 24 percent of Boston's population is African American.

Kambon said his organization gets frequent reports from black men and youth, "just walking home from school with their books and lined up against the wall and pants pulled down and that kind of thing. So we know it affects our community on a daily basis."The Walsh administration and police department leaders are quick to say there is no so-called 'stop and frisk' policy. There is what is called a field interrogation and observation process.

Police Supt. William Gross said, "we have strong community partners. The police department has good relations with elected officials, clergy and community people." About Boston and preparing for potential Ferguson, Missouri, related protests, Gross said, "we should already know who to talk to come and speak to so we're not just reactionary. We're definitely not Ferguson."

The Boston Director of Economic Development has been tapped by the mayor to co-chair a panel on young males of color called "My Brothers' Keeper."

It is an program linked to the Obama administration. John Barros said, "this is a very serious initiative and we're putting a lot of resources behind it. This is an urgent issue, race relations, race disparities, income disparities, income gap, wealth gap, the mayor make a promise to the citizens of Boston that Boston won't be a city that's divided, that Boston will move toward a city that's more united, a city that's working for all of its residents and we're taking this very seriously."

Barros said the initiative will produce a report by January and an action plan by March.